survise

English

Etymology

See supervise and survey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɜː(ɹ)ˈvaɪz/

Verb

survise (third-person singular simple present survises, present participle survising, simple past and past participle survised)

1. (obsolete) To look over; to supervise.
   • 1599 (first performance; published 1600), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man out of His Humour. A Comicall Satyre. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     It is the most vile, foolish, absurd, palpable, and ridiculous escutcheon that ever this eye survised

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “survise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• viruses